Mantas
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Originally Posted By: Man_In_Japan
If a team commits an infraction, then they should be penalised. If anything, blame the kicking prowess of those who practise in day in day out, and practise kicking from long distances, and manage to score kicks from 50m out.
If watching a goal kicking display is your idea of a great sporting specticle that's fine by me.
03? Pfft. I wasn't even thinking about that until you said it. I was happy to see England win (good sports us Aussies) My wife is English and we had great fun taunting the in-laws over the phone.
No bitterness here mate.
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Originally Posted By: Man_In_Japan
That's BS.
So that's your intellectual way of saying you have a different opinion.
I was merely suggesting that the over valued point reward for penalty goals and field goals leads to a boring type of spectacle. Teams have lost games even though they have scored 4 tries to 1 because of penalty goals often awarded for a ruck infringement that the spectator can't see.
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Leave her at home.
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The ruck infringement rules are the most frustrating. No one except the ref and a few players can see what's happened and 3 points for a penalty goal is ludicrous. Whole tournaments have been decided on a penalty from a ruck infringement where someone's hand or foot was 10cm from where it should've been
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Even the players don't know all the rules Tubby.
That's why there's so many penalties.
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Not a bad effort from Tonga against the Kiwis.
The entire Tongan population would almost fit into Eden Park Stadium.
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I've snowboarded in Australia. N.Z. Switzerland, Scotland, Canada, U.S.A. Honshu and Hokkaido. So in comparison to those places, this is what I've come up with.
Skiing in Oz, Pros and Con
Cons
Very expensive, roughly double what you pay in Japan.
Often crowded, long lift lines during holiday periods
Sporadic snow falls, it can go 6-8 weeks between falls and it's often accompanied with rain.
Surface lifts, there's hundreds of them. You pay top dollar for the crapyest type of lift.
Pros
I can drive there from my house with a car full of everything I need.
Snow conditions can be awesome if you time it right.
The terrain of the mountains is reasonable. The longest run is 6 km with a vertical of 672m.
The weather is often fantastic, basically it's 'spring skiing' all season.
It's unique. A beautiful part of the world. Not like anywhere else I've ever skied.
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With a bob sled track too.
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Who cares what they think. They don't own the rights on religion or the interpretation of it. I'll pick and choose bits and pieces of any religion that suits my beliefs. I see that as a better way to live than total indoctrination of just one brand of religion.
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I have god parents and I am a god parent myself. My kids have godparents.
I'm not really religious but I have 'holy'days at Easter and Christmas and I'm pretty sure I'll have a church service when I die.
I think you can read too much into it. To us it doesn't hold much religious significance, just a gesture that you are someone special in a child's life.
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I tried to explain that the grievances with the US started well before 9-11.
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I found it a bit difficult to explain it all to my 9 year old son, when he asked why they did it. Too old to fob off with a 'they were just crazy' comment but still too young to understand.
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I experienced the most extreme wind in my life along that ridge.
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MB We just got back from 4 days down there. I doubt I'll ever see anyone milk as much out of a lift ticket as this bunch of 9 year old boys. Even conning the lifty for an extra ride after last run.
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If I did that I'd have to build some grinds and boxes and lug them up into the back country.
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Originally Posted By: Go NativeI went up for some x-country a couple of times but certainly didn't waste my money at any of the downhill resorts (and never will). Looking forward to getting back to Niseko next winter!
GN, I doubt that I would ever go to an Aussie resort again either if it wasn't for the kids. They don't care what the conditions are like so long as they have some white stuff to slide on (and a thousand jumps) and the fact that I can drive them there from my house, with everthing I need, and not have to deal with Jet lag, visas, passports, airport parking..etc, makes it not a bad deal. -
Whatever you do DONT go for the combover.
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Rugby World Cup draw 2011
Pool A
New Zealand, France, Tonga, Canada, Japan
Pool B
Argentina, England, Scotland, Georgia, Romania
Pool C
Australia, Ireland, Italy, Russia, United States
Pool D
South Africa, Wales, Fiji, Manu Samoa, Namibia
It looks to me like New Zealand has drawn the hardest pool.
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Only sensible questions will be answered Tubby.
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Thats a fatist comment. Are you a fatist.Originally Posted By: TubbyBeaverinhowell surely fat people will have fat wallets
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So she might be receiving a special obese allowance to help cope with her 'disability'?
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I assume she's unemployed. How can she afford all that food!
Does she have a sponser?
Rugby World Cup 2011
in General off-topic discussions
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The Australian back row there.
I have fond memories of playing club rugby in the UK with my brother in-law.(who's still playing At 44) Being the only Aussie I'm used to copping shite from the Poms.
Your really going to have to do better than that.